Behavioral and Experimental Economics

The research group includes scientists from economics, management, and psychology background. In their research, they use experimental approaches to study a variety of topics related to human judgment and decision-making, including:

  1. Why people behave dishonestly and how is it possible to reduce dishonest behavior in groups and organizations?
  2. How can judgment and decision-making in organizations be improved?
  3. What influences cooperation in social dilemmas?

Main focus:

  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Dishonesty, cheating, morality
  • Behavioral interventions, nudges

What we offer:

  • Design and implementation of field, laboratory and online research for the private and public sector
  • Consultation on scientific research proposals and grant projects
  • Providing facilities and know-how for conducting field, laboratory and online research in the context of faculty members’ research and grant projects
  • Development of international research cooperation
  • Arranging research internships for students of the Prague University of Economics and Business
  • Promoting the credibility of scientific research through adherence to the principles of “open science” and their popularization

Representatives of the team

doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Ing. Štěpán Bahník, Ph.D.

doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Ing. Štěpán Bahník, Ph.D.

doc. Ing. Petr Houdek, Ph.D.

doc. Ing. Petr Houdek, Ph.D.

doc. Ing. Marek Hudík, Ph.D.

doc. Ing. Marek Hudík, Ph.D.

doc. PhDr. Lubomír Cingl, Ph.D.

doc. PhDr. Lubomír Cingl, Ph.D.

Ing. Tomáš Miklánek, M.A., Ph.D.

Ing. Tomáš Miklánek, M.A., Ph.D.

Top publications of the team

  • Cingl, L., Lichard, T., & Miklánek, T. (2023). Tax designation effects on compliance: An online experiment with taxpayers. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 214, 615-633.
  • Houdek, P., Bahník, Š., Hudík, M., & Vranka, M. (2021). Selection Effects on Dishonest Behavior. Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 238–266.
  • Vranka, M., Frollová, N., Pour, M., Novakova, J., & Houdek, P. (2019). Cheating customers in grocery stores: A field study on dishonesty. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 83, 101484.

Selected research projects

  • Why don’t birds of a feather always flock together? Imperfect selection of cheaters in cheating-enabling environments, PI: Štěpán Bahník, Czech Science Foundation, 2023-2025
  • Role of social preferences in cooperative behavior, PI: Tomáš Miklánek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024
  • Behavioral Organizational Politics: Experiments in Prosocial Political Behavior, PI: Petr Houdek, Czech Science Foundation, 2022-2024

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